China has labeled the US take on cyber-spying a “complete disregard for moral integrity” and has accused the country of taking advantage of its geopolitical hegemony to spy on others, a Chinese report by an internet information body stated on Tuesday.

Beijing said that US methods involved broad-scale attacks against
the Chinese government.

“America's spying operations have gone far beyond the legal
rationale of ‘anti-terrorism’ and have exposed the ugly face of
its pursuit of self-interest in complete disregard for moral
integrity,” concluded the research published by the China
Academy of Cyber Space.

“As a superpower, the United States takes advantage of its
political, economic, military and technological hegemony to
unscrupulously monitor other countries, including its
allies,” the report added.

‘America’s Global Surveillance Record’ was released one
week after the US accused five Chinese military officers of
hacking US computer systems.

The US Justice Department took the unprecedented move of
publishing, together with a 48-page indictment, the photographs
of the five.

A subsequent editorial in the Global Times, a subsidiary of the
People’s Daily, the official journal of China’s Communist Party,
was packed with insults aimed at Washington on May 21.

China announced last Thursday that it would be investigating
providers of important IT products and services following the
row.

“We should encourage organizations and individuals whose
rights have been infringed to stand up and sue Washington,”
the newspaper said.

“Targets of American surveillance include the Chinese
government and Chinese leaders, Chinese companies, scientific
research institutes, ordinary netizens, and a large number of
cell phone users,” the report said, saying that among NSA
targets were the Ministry of Foreign affairs and Huawei
Technologies Co.

“US spying operations penetrate every corner of China,”
it said. The report referenced foreign newspaper reports of US
online surveillance, which have been revealed little-by-little by
documents from former National Security Agency contractor Edward
Snowden.

Additionally on Tuesday, China announced that it was reviewing
its domestic banks’ dependence on International Business Machines
Corp. (IBM), according to Bloomberg sources.

The People’s Bank of China and the Ministry of Finance were among
those requesting banks remove the servers and trial a local
brand. The four sources requested to be kept anonymous, as the
review was not considered public.